Lawson Capri Schultz (they/she)
I aim to collaborate with communities as a planner and researcher to empower visions of sustainability, safety, and joy.
I grew up in Newark, Delaware (Lenni Lenape ancestral land). I received an Honors BA with distinction in sociology and art with a minor in policy and social justice from the University of Delaware. While earning this degree, I researched the impacts of U.S. military bases abroad (2021), anti-Muslim prejudice in Arkansas (2022), prison education pedagogy (2022), and the intersections of housing and transportation insecurity in Delaware (2023). I am a Master of Urban and Regional Planning student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan (Anishinaabeg, Three Fires Confederacy, ancestral land). I focus on environmental justice, documenting criminalization and resistance in relationship to planning, and land use. I research prison planning and Michigan prison history for the Carceral State Project, and I am a member of the Prison Creative Arts Project, where I facilitated weekly art workshops in Cooper Street Correctional Facility and contributed to installing the annual PCAP art exhibition. Currently, I am also a Brademas Fellow working with Keep Growing Detroit.
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